like nobody's business

like nobody's business
like nobody's business (informal)
Keenly, energetically
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Main Entry: ↑business
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like nobody's business (informal)
Very energetically or intensively
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Main Entry: ↑nobody

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like nobody’s business spoken phrase
used for emphasizing that something happens very quickly, in very large quantities, or that someone does something very well

Letters have been pouring in like nobody’s business.

Thesaurus: quicklysynonym well and very wellsynonym with energy and enthusiasmsynonym happening or done quickly, suddenly or immediatelysynonym
Main entry: business

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I
informal to an extraordinarily high degree or standard

these weeds spread like nobody's business

II

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like nobody's business
informal : very well or quickly or in very large amounts

She can design computer programs like nobody's business.

It's been raining like nobody's business.

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Main Entry: ↑business

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like ˈnobody's business idiom
(BrE, informal) very much, very fast, very well, etc

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I've been working like nobody's business to get it finished in time.

Main entry: ↑businessidiom

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